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To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 1 November
2018 to Question 185131 on Independent Case Examiner, if she will publish that same
information for complaints by women on the equalisation of the state pension age.

<p>Individual departments have set up complaints procedures. That approach has not
changed under Labour 1997-2010 or successive governments. The DWP has a two tier complaints
process which considers formal complaints about our service<strong>. </strong>Once
a complainant has exhausted the DWP complaint process they are signposted to the Independent
Case Examiner’s Office if they are dissatisfied with the final response to their complaint.</p><p>The
Independent Case Examiner is independent, and discusses complaints. The Independent
Case Examiner is appointed under contract to adjudicate on escalated complaints about
the DWP, and its contracted service providers, in cases where the complainant has
exhausted the relevant internal complaints process and remains dissatisfied. If a
complainant is dissatisfied with the outcome of an I Independent Case Examiner investigation
(or the service provided by the Independent Case Examiner) they can ask their Member
of Parliament to escalate their complaint to the Parliamentary and Health Service
Ombudsman.</p><p>The table below provides details of the number of complaints concerning
the equalisation of women’s state pension age, that have been (a) received; (b) accepted
for investigation and (c) resolved by the Independent Case Examiner in each month
since January 2017 (we have interpreted (c) as a request for the number of concluded
complaint examinations).</p><p>At the end of October 2018, there were 865 such cases
awaiting a decision on whether the complaint could be accepted for investigation,
which explains the drop in the number of cases accepted for investigation since April
2018.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Month</p></td><td><p>Complaints received</p></td><td><p>Complaints
accepted for investigation</p></td><td><p>Concluded complaint examinations</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>January
2017</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>February
2017</p></td><td><p>26</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>March
2017</p></td><td><p>211</p></td><td><p>187</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April
2017</p></td><td><p>172</p></td><td><p>157</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>May
2017</p></td><td><p>171</p></td><td><p>148</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>June
2017</p></td><td><p>144</p></td><td><p>124</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>July
2017</p></td><td><p>222</p></td><td><p>185</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>August
2017</p></td><td><p>290</p></td><td><p>243</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September
2017</p></td><td><p>297</p></td><td><p>232</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>October
2017</p></td><td><p>418</p></td><td><p>338</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>November
2017</p></td><td><p>320</p></td><td><p>265</p></td><td><p>6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>December
2017</p></td><td><p>222</p></td><td><p>177</p></td><td><p>4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>January
2018</p></td><td><p>314</p></td><td><p>254</p></td><td><p>11</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>February
2018</p></td><td><p>240</p></td><td><p>210</p></td><td><p>28</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>March
2018</p></td><td><p>171</p></td><td><p>132</p></td><td><p>16</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April
2018</p></td><td><p>196</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>11</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>May
2018</p></td><td><p>159</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>15</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>June
2018</p></td><td><p>147</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>30</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>July
2018</p></td><td><p>131</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>13</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>August
2018</p></td><td><p>108</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>14</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September
2018</p></td><td><p>101</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>15</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>October
2018</p></td><td><p>119</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>14</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>
</p>

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what representations she has
received from claimants of personal independence payment with myotonic dystrophy on
personal independence payment assessments; and if she will make a statement.

<p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 5<sup>th</sup> November 2018 to
Question <a href="https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-questions-answers/?page=1&amp;max=20&amp;questiontype=AllQuestions&amp;house=commons%2clords&amp;uin=186178"
target="_blank"><strong>UIN 186178</strong></a></p><p> </p>

<p>From the latest data available, 280,780 applications have been made for Funeral
Payments in Great Britain between May 2010 and September 2014. In the same period
there have been 139,560 refusals.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong>Notes</strong></p><p>
</p><p>1. These figures do not include applications which were processed clerically
and have not yet been entered on to the Social Fund Computer System.</p><p> </p><p>2.
The figures given are the number of applications and initial refusals in the given
time period and not the number of people who made applications or received awards.
An individual may make more than one application in a year. Information on the number
of people who made applications and received awards is not available.</p><p> </p><p>3.
The refusal figures given are based on the initial decisions made on each case and
may include cases where an award was later made on review.</p><p> </p><p>4. All figures
are rounded to the nearest 10.</p>

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will set out the timeframe
for implementing her Department's response to the court judgement of June 2018 on
the payment of Severe Disability Premium to claimants who are already in receipt of
Universal Credit.

<p>Written statement HCWS745 on 7 June 2018 , which preceded the Court judgment of
14 June, set out our plans to make provision for claimants already in receipt of Universal
Credit, to receive a Severe Disability Premium backdated.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The
‘Universal Credit (Managed Migration) Amendment Regulations 2018’, which contain these
provisions, were laid in Parliament on 5 November 2018 and will now be scrutinised
and voted on by Parliament.</p>

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps the Government is
taking to ensure that a claimant will not receive less money in benefits as a result
of moving to universal credit under the managed migration process.

<p>Welfare claimants whose circumstances remain the same will not see their benefit
entitlement reduced as a direct result of being moved on to Universal Credit through
managed migration, as they will receive transitional protection. This will ensure
that claimants who are managed migrated will have total entitlement to Universal Credit
that is at least as great had been their total entitlement to existing benefits at
the point they are migrated, so safeguarding their benefit entitlement until their
circumstances change.</p><p> </p><p>Claimants whose entitlement is less in Universal
Credit than their legacy entitlement will receive transitional protection to ensure
their benefit allowance remains the same at the point of transition. The other claimants
who are migrated onto Universal Credit as part of managed migration will receive the
same or an increased entitlement as they receive on legacy benefits.</p><p> </p><p>Additionally,
we have announced that Tax Credits claimants with capital in excess of the £16,000
capital threshold will now receive a 12-month grace period during which they can receive
transitional protection if eligible.</p><p> </p><p>We have also announced that, from
16 January 2019, we will prevent those claimants who are, or have been within the
past month entitled to an award of an existing benefit that includes a Severe Disability
Premium (SDP), from naturally migrating to Universal Credit following a change of
circumstances. These claimants will continue to receive the relevant legacy benefit(s)
appropriate to their change of circumstance and will only move to Universal Credit
via managed migration (and therefore be eligible to transitional protection), safeguarding
their existing benefit entitlement.</p><p> </p><p>We will also provide both an on-going
monthly payment to eligible claimants who have already lost the SDP as a consequence
of moving to Universal Credit and an additional monthly payment to cover the period
since they moved. Eligibility for these payments will depend on a number of criteria
being satisfied, which include whether the basic qualifying conditions for SDP continue
to be met.</p>

<p>When a couple separates and still require the support of Universal Credit they
will claim separately and as such the two claimants will be treated as entirely separate
claims and will have their entitlements and therefore award amounts treated accordingly.</p><p>
</p><p>If an advance has been awarded to a couple and the couple subsequently separate,
they will be equally liable to repay the advance.</p><p> </p><p>When a couple separates,
and an advance has not been recovered from the associated benefit claim because the
claim ends or there was no entitlement to that benefit, the outstanding balance is
treated as if it were an overpayment. This would then be recoverable (as per Section
71 of the Social Security Administration Act 1992) at the standard overpayment rate.</p><p><strong>
</strong></p><p>After separation, if a couple have an overpayment for which they are
both equally liable, the debt is apportioned equally. Once this apportionment has
been done we will not reverse the split liability decision. Any debt for which only
one member of a couple is liable will follow that person on separation.</p>

<p>When a couple separates and still require the support of Universal Credit they
will claim separately and as such the two claimants will be treated as entirely separate
claims and will have their entitlements and therefore award amounts treated accordingly.</p><p>
</p><p>If an advance has been awarded to a couple and the couple subsequently separate,
they will be equally liable to repay the advance.</p><p> </p><p>When a couple separates,
and an advance has not been recovered from the associated benefit claim because the
claim ends or there was no entitlement to that benefit, the outstanding balance is
treated as if it were an overpayment. This would then be recoverable (as per Section
71 of the Social Security Administration Act 1992) at the standard overpayment rate.</p><p><strong>
</strong></p><p>After separation, if a couple have an overpayment for which they are
both equally liable, the debt is apportioned equally. Once this apportionment has
been done we will not reverse the split liability decision. Any debt for which only
one member of a couple is liable will follow that person on separation.</p>

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department take steps
to ensures that the remaining claimant of universal credit is not held fully responsible
for unpaid advance payments when a couple separates.

<p>When a couple separates and still require the support of Universal Credit they
will claim separately and as such the two claimants will be treated as entirely separate
claims and will have their entitlements and therefore award amounts treated accordingly.</p><p>
</p><p>If an advance has been awarded to a couple and the couple subsequently separate,
they will be equally liable to repay the advance.</p><p> </p><p>When a couple separates,
and an advance has not been recovered from the associated benefit claim because the
claim ends or there was no entitlement to that benefit, the outstanding balance is
treated as if it were an overpayment. This would then be recoverable (as per Section
71 of the Social Security Administration Act 1992) at the standard overpayment rate.</p><p><strong>
</strong></p><p>After separation, if a couple have an overpayment for which they are
both equally liable, the debt is apportioned equally. Once this apportionment has
been done we will not reverse the split liability decision. Any debt for which only
one member of a couple is liable will follow that person on separation.</p>

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Government
news release of 1 October 2018 entitled Citizens Advice to provide support to Universal
Credit claimants, how much funding she plans to allocate to Citizens Advice in Scotland
to provide that support; and what plans she has to provide funding for areas that
do not have a Citizens Advice office.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people her Department
plans to migrate from employment support allowance to universal credit in (a) the
West Midlands and (b) Birmingham, Edgbaston in (i) 2019-20, (ii) 2020-21, (iii) 2021-22
and (iv) 2022-23.